Yakovenko A. Educational motivations peculiarities of the students' youth in the transformation conditions of the Ukrainian society.

The object - persons graduating secondary school and students of higher learning institutions of Ukraine; the aim - the definition of the content, character and tendencies of motivations of getting higher education by ukrainian youth in the conditions of cardinal socially-economic transformations and making conceptual approaches, which are purposeful to balance of educational motivations of students youth and needs of ukrainian society; the methods - common scientific, qualitative and quantitative ones; the results - conceptual base for further reforming of higher school in consideration of new educational paradigm, the improvement of educational process in higher school; the newness - the developing and realizing of conseptual approach to the analysis of the motivations of getting higher education during the period of cardinal and social transformations and the reforming of ukrainian educational system; the branch - sociological sciences.